# Why gun violence can't be our new normal

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2016
- Speaker: Dan Gross
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management, Society and politics, Law
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gross_why_gun_violence_can_t_be_our_new_normal)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

It doesn't matter whether you love or hate guns; it's obvious that the US would be a safer place if there weren't thousands of them sold every day without background checks. Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, makes a passionate, personal appeal for something that more than 90 percent of Americans want: background checks for all gun sales. "For every great movement around the world, there's a moment where you can look back and say, 'That's when things really started to change,'" Gross says. "For the movement to end gun violence in America, that moment is here."

## Lectures

1. [Why gun violence can't be our new normal](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/dan_gross_why_gun_violence_can_t_be_our_new_normal/9596be6c14bd), 14 min (TED's player)